Arizona county defends restoring 98,000 with unconfirmed citizenship to voter rolls | 4 Nov 2024 | The Maricopa County Recorder's Office is standing by its choice to restore voter registration status of individuals affected by a glitch that impacted 218,000 voters."Maricopa County did not receive a complete list from the Secretary of State’s Office regarding who may have been impacted by the MVD data oversight," the Recorder's Office said in a statement to Fox News in part. Now, these voters can participate in the upcoming election as they did before, the recorder's office said. Arizona's high court ruled last Thursday the county must provide a conservative watchdog group with a list of noncitizens currently registered to vote after a lawsuit was lobbed against the county last year. During an evidentiary hearing, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes testified that a system error had affected approximately 218,000 registered voters, the court document states.